Hard drive broken? Computer crashed? What now? Useful tips and tricks, tools and utilites for hard disk drive recovery and repair with Linux, for Linux distributions and non-linux operating systems. (ext2 ext3 ext4 reiserfs ntfs fat32, etc.). Next time make a backup! But for now …
Hiren’s BootCD (HBCD) is a completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary operating system can not be booted.
It is a great resource for anyone with computer problems who is having trouble accessing the internet to download programs in an attempt to fix it. It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few.
With some simple knowledge about what is contained on the CD, you can use it to repair many problems computer like hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery.
We may call it as an emergency cd which every computer technician or home user must have.
